It was established in 1985 by legislation from the Majles merging 11 research and cultural organizations.

Entrance of the National Museum of Iran, the vault is built in the style of PersiasSassanid vaults The National Museum of Iran (in Persian: موزه ایران باستان; Muze-ye Irân-e Bâstân) is an archeological and historical museum located in Tehran.

In exploring the political, psychological, sociological, and cultural aspects of this situation, in an unusual manner she transfers the discussion onto the philosophical and poetic plane.

The cultural changes she observed, deriving from the transformation of the former Persia into the Islamic Republic of Iran, moved Neshat deeply.

The groups symbolize, respectively, the world of culture, social principles, tradition, space as a means of control (the fortress) on one hand, and wild, uncontrollable nature (the desert) on the other.

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The most visible daily expressions of Iran's brand of fundamentalist Shi'ite Islam are the modest dress code and behavior at mosques.

In Iran, as in all other Islamic societies, art favours the non-representational, the stylized and the derivative.

Iran's most famous cultural export are Persian carpets, dating back to the 5th century BC, and are still an integral part of religious and cultural festivals.

iran travel is a virtual organization that carries out initiatives in the spheres of environment, urban, community, economy and information, and at scales that are effective.

Islamic Republic of Iran has border in the north by the states of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan and the Caspian Sea; to the south by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf; to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan; and to the west by Iraq and Turkey.

Iran is about 1/5 the size of the America and nearly as big as Queens land, Australia.

He said that Iran has currently hired satellite of US Company to broadcast programs and this is not reliable because they create problem whenever they want citing the example of the disruption of broadcasts by Sahar 2 TV channel sometime ago.

He regretted that necessary steps have not been taken to introduce the history and culture of Iran in Japan in the past 30 years and the Japanese people only became acquainted with Iranian culture through feature films which were screened in Japan and welcomed by the Japanese moviegoers.

Safeguarding cultural ties, fair distribution of facilities and containing migration, forging cultural interaction among the tribes of a region and instilling cultural values in the lives of current and coming generations are among the objectives of the project, he concluded.

As to cultural commonalties between the two countries, he called on the officials of the two countries to become more familiar with ways of bolstering cultural exchanges and promoting tourism industry which will lead to exchange of visits between the two nations.

He said that the Islamic Republic of Iran favors independence, security and progress of Iraq, adding that the two countries are expected to raise the current level of economic cooperation given their religious and cultural amity, extensive relationship and their long border line.

Hakim appreciated Iran's support for the political process of Iraq and establishment of the democratic government and briefed the president on political process in the neighboring country.

It will be wiser for Iran to be careful and think of herself more than other nations especially in this period that she has lots of problems with international arena concerning her nuclear activities.

Iran has an uranium enrichment program issue that has been criticized for a long time in international arena, but there is still no positive step taken except of threatening Iran to bring the matter to UN Security Council.

Iran who is defending its rights as an NPT member, persistently says that she will enrich uranium to produce electricity and minimizing her foreign dependency.

According to this theory the art of carpet-weaving in Iran is at least 3500 years old.

The dominance of the Caliphs of Baghdad was followed by a period of no less than two centuries during which some Persian dynasties succeeded in obtaining relative independence and in regaining power over their own land.

The present government in Iran is trying to keep this tradition going on by organising annual seminars on carpets, inviting the curators of all the world's great museums to participate in the seminars which are large scale and well planned.

Iran is home to one of the oldest civilizations in the world, going back well over 3500 years.

Iran, the home of the Islamic Republic, is associated with the American hostage crisis, Islamic fundamentalism, Shi'i terrorists, and revolution.

The topics will include (but not be limited to): the Pre-Islamic background of Iran, the emergence of an Persianate Islamic civilization, the constructions of Iranian identity as distinct from a central Asian and an Arab one, the importance of Shii and Sufi (mystical) understandings of Islam, and the emergence of the Iranian (a.k.a.

Iran is bordered on the north by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and the Caspian Sea; on the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan; on the south by the Gulf of Oman, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Persian Gulf; and on the west by Iraq and Turkey.

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In addition to its wealth of history and civilization, Iran is a rich country with regard to its diversity in geographical and cultural make up and also with regard to the abundance of its natural resource of oil tours.

Irancultural Although in the West this has been traditionally known as Persianculture, the inhabitants of the country have long called it Iran and themselves Iranians, rather than Persians.

Turkey and Iraq neighbour Iran in the west, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkmensitan Republics in the north, and Afghanistan and Pakestan in the east.

Iran has access to the warm and pleasant waters of the Persian Golf and the Oman Sea through a 1,880 km long coastal strip which extends from the Arvand river by th eIraqi border to the Strait of Homoz- and thereafter, to the Indain Ocean vai Oamn Sea.

A 630 km long strip by the Caspian Sea in the north expose Iran to an overall 2,500 km of coastlines.

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Due to the distorting of reality about the true history of Iran in ancient time in film 300, which raises oppositions all over the world, Iran’s representative in UNESCO in a letter asked for condemning Warner Brother Company for screening this film.

Cultural Heritage News Agency introduced as the best selected news agency in the year 1385 (Iranian calendar) by web magazine of “Haft Sang”.

President Mahmoud Ahmadi Nezhad is implementing the hardest of hardline ideological tendencies in the cultural arena, consistent with his belief that his administration should prepare the country for the reappearance of the hidden imam (who is now more than a thousand years old).

In Iran’s universities, this would mean making fundamental modifications to the content of textbooks to make them compatible with religious tradition; erasing Western culture from textbooks; and forcing women to study in their native cities in order to maintain their morals by being in the family home.

Not only is Ahmadi Nezhad devoting an enormous part of the cultural budget to reconstruction of mosques or religious-economic enterprises such as the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad—perhaps the richest economic enterprise in Iran—and religious institutions in Qom, he is increasing the influence of seminaries at the expense of universities.